Cannabis for migraine treatment: the once and future prescription? An historical and scientific review
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 76 (1) , 3-8
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(98)00033-5
Abstract
Cannabis, or marijuana, has been used for centuries for both symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of migraine. It was highly esteemed as a headache remedy by the most prominent physicians of the age between 1874 and 1942, remaining part of the Western pharmacopoeia for this indication evenKeywords
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